卷四·第八章　论远行

The topic of foreign travel receives treatment by observing the position of the luminaries to the angles, both of them, but particularly the moon. For when the moon is setting or declining from the angles, she portends journeys abroad or changes of place. Mars too sometimes has a similar force, either when he is setting or when he himself also has declined from mid‑heaven, when he is in opposition or quartile to the luminaries.

远行这一题目，要观察两光对四角的位置来处理——两光都要看，但尤其是月亮。因为月亮在沉没时，或从四角下落时，预示出国远行或迁移住处。火星有时也有类似的力量：或在它沉没时，或在它自己也从中天下落时，当它与两光对冲或成四分相。

If the Lot of Fortune also falls among the signs that cause travel, the subjects spend their whole lives abroad and will have all their personal relations and business there. If beneficent planets regard the aforesaid places or succeed them, their activities abroad will be honourable and profitable and their return quick and unimpeded; but if the maleficent planets regard them, their journeys will be laborious, injurious, and dangerous, and the return difficult, although in every case the mixture of influences is taken into consideration, determined by the dominance of the planets that bear an aspect to these same places, as we explained at first.

若福点也落在引起远行的星座之中，当事人一辈子都在异乡度过，他们所有的人际往来与事业都在那里。若吉星照看上述诸位，或紧随其后，他们在异乡的作为便体面而有利，归程迅速而无阻；但若凶星照看这些位置，他们的旅程便劳苦、有害而危险，回程也艰难——不过在每一种情形下，都要考虑各种影响的混合，这由与这些位置成相位的行星谁占主导来决定，正如我们起初所解释的。

In general, it happens that, if the luminaries fall in the lower parts of the eastern quadrants, the travel is to the eastern and southern parts of the world, but if in the western quadrants or in the occident itself, to the north and the west; and if the zodiacal signs which caused the travel chance to be those of a single figure, either themselves or the planets that rule them, the journeys will be made at long intervals and upon occasion; but if they are bicorporeal signs, or of a double form, they will travel continuously and for a very long time.

一般说来，若两光落在东方象限的较低部分，旅行便往世界的东方与南方；若在西方象限，或就在下降点本身，便往北方与西方。若引起远行的黄道星座——无论就星座本身而言，还是就主管它们的行星而言——碰巧是单一形体的星座，旅程便隔很久才有一次，且是偶尔为之；但若是双体星座，或具双重形象，当事人便会不断地旅行，而且时间很长。

If Jupiter and Venus are the rulers of the places which govern travel, and of the luminaries, they make the journeys not only safe but also pleasant; for the subjects will be sent on their way either by the chief men of the country or by the resources of their friends, and favourable conditions of weather and abundance of supplies will also aid them. Often, too, if Mercury is added to these, profit, gain, gifts, and honour result from this good fortune of which we have spoken.

若木星与金星是主管远行之位的星，又是主管两光的星，它们便使旅程不仅平安，而且愉快：因为当事人或由本国的首要人物、或凭朋友的资助被送上旅途，有利的天气与充足的给养也会助他们一臂之力。若再加上水星，往往还会从我们所说的这种好运中得到利润、收益、馈赠与荣誉。

If Saturn and Mars control the luminaries, however, and particularly if they are in opposition to each other, they will make the results useless and will involve the subject in great dangers, through unfortunate voyages and shipwreck if they are in watery signs, or again through hard going and desert places; and if they are in solid signs, through falling from heights and assaults of winds; in the solstitial and equinoctial signs, through lack of provisions and unhealthy conditions; in the signs of human form, through piracy, plots, and robberies; in the terrestrial signs, through the attacks of beasts, or earthquakes, and if Mercury is present at the same time, through the weather, dangerous accusations, and, furthermore, through the bites of reptiles and other poisonous creatures.

然而，若土星与火星控制两光，尤其若它们彼此对冲，就会使结果徒劳无益，并让当事人陷入大险：若它们在水生星座，是航行不顺与沉船，或者又是行路艰难与荒漠之地；若它们在固定星座，是从高处坠落与狂风袭击；在至点与分点星座，是给养缺乏与有害健康的境况；在人形星座，是海盗、阴谋与劫掠；在陆生星座，是野兽的袭击或地震；若同时有水星在场，则是天气、危险的指控，此外还有爬虫及其他毒物的咬伤。

The peculiar quality of the events, whether they be beneficial or harmful — that is, the differentiation in the cause — is observed from the government of the places significant of action, property, body, or dignity, according to our original disposition of them, and the occasions which will to the greatest degree bring about these portended events are judged from the time of the ingresses of the five planets. Such be our general account of the matter.

事件的特殊性质，无论有益还是有害——也就是原因上的分别——要按我们最初对它们的安排，从主管事业、财产、身体或尊位之诸位的情况来观察；而最能促成这些所预示之事的时机，则从五颗行星进入的时间来判断。我们对此事的总论就是如此。